Risks of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

How is Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome(OHS) diagnosed

According to World Health Organization or WHO, the number of deaths due to lung diseases are on all-time high. In fact, 11 per cent of the total deaths, i.e. 14 thousand out of a million deaths are being accounted for it.

Why Care at Home For Patients Is A Good Idea

Importance of Respiratory Care at Home

According to World Health Organization or WHO, the number of deaths due to lung diseases are on all-time high. In fact, 11 per cent of the total deaths, i.e. 14 thousand out of a million deaths are being accounted for it.

Neuromuscular Disease Symptoms and Treatment

10 Myth vs Reality

In a land, where hospital is an epitome of advanced health care, the concept of home care raises many questions. When a patient needs prolonged medical assistance or monitoring and hospitalization seems to be their only resort, issues such as mounting bills and other such limitations make it a bit difficult to continue such treatment.

10 Stereotypes about home care

Are you facing problems dealing with the health of your loved ones at home? Is there a patient who has just come home after a long and exhausting hospitalisation? Are you facing difficulties in managing your time trying to take care of them?

Challenges for respiratory patients

How to care for your ageing parents

One day our parents might not be able to drive, climb stairs, cook, walk or maybe even change their own clothes. Isolation and loneliness spread among the elders as social engagement and interaction drops down!

Benefits of NIV therapy

Artificial respiration methods have persisted for long and failed to provide adequate levels of respiratory care and assistance. NIV is the Non-Invasive Ventilation technique which provides ventilator support through the upper airway of the patients using a mask or a similar device.

8 signs of good sleep

Most of us are aware of the golden triangle of good health – diet, exercise and sleep. While diet and exercise are something you do while wide awake and in full consciousness, sleeping is something you do when you, well, sleep! You can track your calories and count your push-ups, but good sleep is much harder to measure!

Benefits of oxygen therapy

Living with COPD

Ask anybody around you what COPD is, the chances are that they will not know. However, as per a recent report by Global Burden of Disease Report, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease or COPD as it is common known; kills more than 600,000 people in India each year. In fact, it is among the leading causes of death after cardiovascular diseases.

Impact of smoking and air pollution on COPD

There is no denying the fact that the world we live in today is marred with air pollution. Whether it is outdoor or indoor, we are battling air pollution at all levels. According to WHO, tobacco consumption in the form of smoking is the biggest contributor of COPD in humans, whether it active or passive smoking. Smoking includes cigarettes, pipes, and cigars and the fumes from these affect even non-smokers.

Symptoms of COPD and how it is diagnosed

In COPD patients, the symptoms may not appear until substantial damages to the lungs are done. Moreover, the symptoms would directly correspond to the amount of lung damage. Also, it is not necessary that everyone with COPD will have symptoms evidently. If you are a regular smoker, or you get exposed to air pollution, chemicals, and other harmful fumes, then you are at risk of developing COPD with time.

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